‘Girl Group’ Overview: Rebel Wilson Film Is Non secular Sequel To ‘Pitch Perfect’

Nearly 15 years after first stealing audiences’ humorous bones as Fat Amy, Rebel Wilson has offered a brand new technology with a musical comedy that may have followers laughing and singing alongside simply the identical.

In Girl Group, co-written and directed by Wilson, the Australian multihyphenate stars as popstar Tassie Young, who discovered fame together with her 4 greatest buddies once they had been found at a expertise present in 1996.

But with Tassie’s celebration woman methods forcing her out of the group in 2006, she finds out her former bandmates are having a reunion tour within the current and don’t need her again. 

After a DUI arrest, Tassie is compelled to show music to a gaggle of youngster women at East Hollywood Community Center, the place she discovers their expertise and helps them put together for an audition with a serious label.

Wilson hits all the suitable comedic notes as each star and director, complemented by hilarious performances from an ensemble that features Jennifer Coolidge as her supervisor, Randall Park because the group middle’s director and Derry Girls alum Jamie-Lee O’Donnell as a rival coach together with her personal woman group.

The film can be stacked with cameos from the likes of the Spice Girls’ Mel C, Pussycat Dolls’ Nicole Scherzinger, Sally Hawkins, Chris Colfer and extra.

With enjoyable choreographed covers of Spice Girls, Destiny’s Child, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and others, the ensemble of newcomers places their expertise on full show, along with maintaining with their seasoned co-stars’ comedic chops.

With an addictively gratifying movie like Girl Group that blends coronary heart and humor, Wilson has returned to her roots to offer a enjoyable, character-driven musical comedy that’s certain to enchantment to anybody who couldn’t cease singing “Cups (When I’m Gone)” for almost all of 2011.

Title: Girl Group
Festival: Toronto (Gala Presentations)
Director-screenwriter: Rebel Wilson
Cast: Rebel Wilson, Randall Park, Sheridan Smith, Melanie Chisholm, Nicole Scherzinger, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Shaznay Lewis, Ashley Roberts, Judi Love, Guz Khan, Chabely Ponce, Daniela Couso, Lilah Pate, Mia Kaplan, Bailey Stender, Loren Gray, Miracle Washington, Ana Yi Puig, Keith Duffy, Chris Colfer, Bechill, Jolene, Sally Hawkins, Jennifer Coolidge
Sales brokers: UTA/Live Nation Studios
Running time: 1 hr 43 minutes